Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-07-09

with wide hem below, and has two or three
tucks, perhaps. The sleeves may be full with
wide cuff, as in picture; but plain and not
too tight coat sleeves are the most becoming
to these blouses and the coolest. The wide,
tight cuff binds the forearm and gives the
wearer smothered sensation on very warm
day. Otherwise this costume Is really cooler
in spite of its wooden material, than many of
the thin dresses which are purchased for COM
fort in the summer months The reason is
that 1t is perfectly loose, while many of the
alleged cool gowns are tight about the waist,
hence uncomfortable. That part of the blouse
above the wide collar can be made separate
and fastened in temporarily, or taken out and
chemisette inserted when the wearer wishes
to look and feel more summary about the
neck. ~.
This is the yachting costume which all
feminine London is going into this season. 1t
is a restful thing to wear and 70 look at after
seeing SO many, many glove fitting, tailor
made gowns as one sees here in New York
all of which must have snug corset under
them A prejudice against the corset is
growing, and / am glad of it, Say
what you will in favor of this accursed gar
ment, it is not easy to wear even in its loosest
attitudes. And if you feel feeble or tired the
sight of woman all braced and laced up in
W.
WEAKNESS. Nine Bernhardt despises the
corset. Never wore one in her life, and never
intends to. And that, without a doubt. is
why her Inquire .s SO .-eA-~.5 al graceful and
her movements sinuously fascinating like
chose Of some long stepping, free Imbed,
Jungle bred tigress. The muscles of her BODY
nave been taught to depend on themselves
md not on stays. In the winter, says one
who claims to know, she wears to the theatre
| long full gown of heavy Chinese crepe, with
light fitting sleeves reaching to the elbow
only. The gown hangs loose from the throat
to the ankles Over this she wears her stage
costumes, never removing it unless the toilet
is decollete. 1t serves two purposes. 1t keeps
her warm and adds the necessary fullness to
her figure without in tue least impeding her
movements.
Ellen Terry wears no corset and her will
Lowry grace is dream like in its beauty
Miss Eastlake wears no corset on or off the
stage, either. Her wide, classic waist and
long, powerful step are very definite parts
Of her attractiveness. Langtry is corseted
Juno She keeps her figure well up to the
modern conventional English standard of
fashionable beauty. Fashionable it is, but
artistic, never.
In a lecture given by Franklin Sargent to
the pupils of the Lyceum school of acting in
ohs city recently, the lecturer said: 1.-THE in
ventor of buckram should be publicly dis
honored The corset, in all its forms, DESTROYS
not only health but beauty. With its intro
duction the poetry of the feminine form was
turned into prose. Bernhardt understands
this, and poses untrammeled by watch springs
or whaleboneS
Many ladies have their thick gowns fitted
over corset and then wear them without
the corset. And as for bustles, they are GER
tainly distortions of the intent of divinity
Fashion demands them with TIE tight waist
ed, regulation draped dress; but all the world
and Jupiter will admit that they are uncom-
Portable, ugly and ungraceful. II a woman
had been born with such an excrescence on
her person, wouldn't she give her last dollar
TO have it removed Yet she will permit the
foolish fetch fashion to put it on her, though
she groars and signs in misery every hour
that she wears it, And so say, get an ont
ing costume and live in it all you can. Be
comfortable and look comfortable and grace-
Full Blessed be the fashion which distorts
not the human form
Now IS the time to get round or sailor
hat OF white rough straw and trim it with
white ribbon, tarletan or null 1t will give
summary atmosphere to any toilet and IN.
appropriate. With black or white il will he
adorable. Hats of that kind can now he
bought at many houses in this city for
twenty five, twenty, nineteen and even seven.
teen cents apiece.
AS to bonnets, word comes from over tho
sea that some bewildering ones have been pre-.
pared for Ascot, the SWEETEST of British race
meetings. They are dainty and airy to a de-
gree Stringless they are, Of course, and are
worn perched on the top of the head in dare
you sort of way, that makes masculine heart
capltulate at once on any terms Even there
where the laws in regard to hats and bonnets
are severe and infiexible, the sailor hat is met
at every step this season. Red sailors are
particularly in vogue with our English
cousins. Somebody's man, of course.re-
minds US all that red hats are no good for
weeping in. He says: ave may laugh in a
SKY blue hat, but We must not weep in a rose
colored one"
English divinities who are ordering tbair
costumes for Ascot are providing parasols
that cost eco for the same occasion A
weapon of this kind is supposed to be cana.
bic of reducing rival to despair. Red sun
shades are to have chance for their lives AT